Two trip highlights to Canada from Jeff

 

Almost missed both my first flight and our last flight!

 

About the first flight, Jeff's trip to Canada started with a 6:00am flight out of Prague.  Yeah, that's early.  An early flight meant a very early wake-up for a taxi scheduled at 4:15am.

 

Didn't happen that way.

 

As it turned out, Maylia happened to text me by phone (twice) at 4:30am (late night in Canada).  Unlike the alarm clock, Maylia's texts woke me.  Waking at 4:30am meant I was already late for the taxi to the airport, let alone any chance to clean up for the long haul.

How it panned out: I immediately called the taxi service, who confirmed he's still parked below.  "Please, 10 more minutes."

I made it to the gate with 15 minutes to spare.  Whew.

 

About our last flight (this past Sunday afternoon), we all are in Frankfurt to return to Prague. Weary from two flights already, we decide to break for food and coffees.  After going through security, we still had a full hour, so "no problem" to stop at a restaurant.

But typical for a weary family of four, time got away from us fast.  We were just cleaning up from lunch when we hear the announcement "...please come to the gate immediately."

Oh hell...we're at the top of Terminal A, our gate was A38 and our flight lifts in 10 minutes.  We had to sprint to have a chance. Maylia had a backpack and the stroller w/ kids.  I had carry-ons in each hand.  So the sprinting began.

Until up to gate 30, 32, I was generally ahead by 50-100 feet, but Maylia was closing on me, dodging between folks with our full 2-seater stroller.  Most memorable part was hearing front-seater Ella screaming behind me "Run, Daddy!, RUN!!"

We made it with seconds to spare.

 

 

We're home now.  Almost fully unpacked.

 

Kids are excited to be home, really enjoying their toys and the park playgrounds again.

 

Not so much for us, but jetlag has hit the kids pretty good.  Mattias more so than Ella.  Our first two nights home have meant Mattias waking up once or twice, first being only a hour or two after going down for bed.

Worse for Mattias is the fact he's at a tough age for long-distance goodbyes.  While Ella fully understands she's in a different city, Mattias just doesn't.  And so when he wakes, he cries because he believes his Baboo & Yaya (May's parents) should be in the flat.  So, you could say he's homesick without understanding why.  Skype & video are helping.

 

A lot to share about our vacation, but we need another 2 nights to unpack, dump pictures and write.

Until then, just remember "Run, Daddy, RUN!!"